RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
Monday, May 10. (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., R.M.) Drunkenness.—Michael O’Keefe, Michael Sptton, and William Blake were each fined 5s with the option of forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. Mary Davis was discharged with a cautions. Vaqrancy.—lsabella Lyle was charged with having no lawful means pf support.—Prisoner : I deny the charge. —Constable Mee said he had known the prisoner for the last ten months. She had repeatedly been before the Court for different offences, and was a prostitute. Wit apprehended her in Hope street on Saturday night. She was then lying on the ground in a drunken, state. —-Prisoner : Can he prove that lam a prostitute ?—I don’t think he can. His Worship : He has already sworn that you are. If you can prove that you have been gaining your livelihood in any other way, I will remand you till to morrow.—Prisoner: I don’t want any remand,—Constable Vernon having given Corroborative evidence, prisoner was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labor. [Lgft sitting.]
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Evening Star, Issue 3499, 11 May 1874, Page 2
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164RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Evening Star, Issue 3499, 11 May 1874, Page 2
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